{"id":65141,"date":"2014-01-17T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T00:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=65141"},"modified":"2014-01-18T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T17:07:55","slug":"lysley-tenorio-new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/lysley-tenorio-new-york-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Lysley Tenorio, New York, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Lysley-Tenorio-the-Standard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65182\" alt=\"Lysley Tenorio (the Standard)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Lysley-Tenorio-the-Standard.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Lysley-Tenorio-the-Standard.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Lysley-Tenorio-the-Standard-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From room 1006 at the Standard, East Village, you see a white-faced clock overlooking a small triangular park. A sea-green dome ringed with small arched windows is partly blocked by a boxy rectangular building, faded and plain except for the cross on its south-facing wall. On the rooftop hangs a single line of laundry. Straight ahead is a building, wide and blank as a wall, that nobody seems to enter or exit.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t live in New York, you might not know the names of these buildings or their significance, how they function in the city, what they mean to its people. But this is the gift of being somewhere new, in a place that will never be home. Everything is defined by your first impressions. That sea-green dome, so out of place and time, might house things both ancient and futuristic\u2014rusted astrolabes on the shelves, side by side with next generation iPads. The crucifix could be the final remnant of a failed church, the original cathedral demolished decades ago, replaced by a building full of a thousand cubicles. 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